Full screen to Head 1 instead of 0

tmchardy · 03-14-2006, 07:31 PM

I run a GeForce 5700 in TwinView mode.

All my apps (games) that go into full-screen mode automatically default to Head 0 in my twinview configuration. Is there something I can set so they go to Head 1 instead? (Or is it possible to switch my head designations - one is DVI and the other VGA so I can't just switch the plugs)?

(Note: My Cedega full screen games go to the right monitor because it grabs the configuration out of the xorg.conf. I don't know where KDE gets it for plain ol' linux apps.)

macemoneta · 03-14-2006, 09:35 PM

You can specify the head on the command. Some commands, have an option to specify the display, and you can specify head 1. For example on mplayer:

mplayer -display :0.1 some.avi

If a command does not have the option, you can specify it by prefixing the environment variable:

DISPLAY=:0.1 somecommand

tmchardy · 03-15-2006, 10:08 PM

Well I use TwinView so I only have 1 screen. But, that did give me an idea. It is clearly using what *IT* considers the first available resolution. Is there a way to tell it what resolution setting to be using? If I can get it to use a NULL, 1024x768 rather than 1024x768, NULL then I would be set (i.e. without switching screen resolutions before loading the app - is there a command line to do this?)